Thursday, July 14, 2016

Clinton Conspiracy – TWA 800

It’s hard to believe that this week will mark the 20th
anniversary of the downing of TWA Flight 800. I remember it vividly; returning home
from some family event or other and flipping on the television to catch the
news and being confronted by the images of burning wreckage of a passenger jet
that had crashed into the Atlantic soon after takeoff. Dialing in CNN, (Fox
News had launched just a few months prior and MSNBC was literally only 2 days
into its 24 hours news schedule, so CNN was the go to choice for news) I was
confronted with a pretty boy anchor absurdly asking a member of one of the
search and rescue agencies on the scene if darkness was hindering the search
and if in the morning, daylight would make things easier?!

From that point forward I was deeply intrigued by the
story; the recovery of the shattered pieces of the plane, the nascent
investigation and what quickly became clear to me, the larger forces that were
at play when it came to getting at the truth of what happened to TWA 800. It
didn’t take long for folks with either a level of curiosity or a level of
expertise to start to raise questions about the direction of the investigation
and the conclusion that fumes in a center fuel tank caused the plane to
explode.

Among the list of folks that included James Sanders and
Lt. Col. William Donaldson, Ret., was writer, researcher and later filmmaker
Jack Cashill. I had the opportunity to interview Cashill a couple of times and
he seemed to be coming at this from a similar perspective to mine; the way the
government was handling this and telling the story, just did not add up.

Cashill is one of the most reasoned voices when it comes
to spelling out what some have dubbed the conspiracy theory of TWA 800 and 20
years on he has collected thousands of documents, interviewed countless eye
witnesses, and compiled a thorough timeline of the events following the crash
in the form of his new book, TWA 800: The
Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy.

Cashill clearly details example, after example, after
example, of how countless witnesses clearly spelled out what they saw that
fateful night, only to be ignored, misrepresented, wrongfully discredited and
in a number of cases outright lied about by the people who were tasked to
investigate the event. Instead of allowing the folks with the expertise to
handle the investigation, the Clinton administration, choose to turn the
investigation over to the FBI and even more oddly the CIA. Cashill cites
chapter and verse where the lack of knowledge of airline operations and
technology resulted in facts being missed, questions being left
unasked/answered, and the overall bungling of witness interviews.

He also dismantles the ridiculous animation the CIA
tried to pawn off as to what “really happened” to TWA 800. Cashill ties
together so much information that points to and raises questions about so many
moving parts of this story that clearly point to a desperate Clinton White
House flailing to cover up a terrorist attack or military exercise gone bad in
an attempt to retain the Presidency.

Cashill writes in great detail about the parade of
usual suspects that a part and parcel of so many Clinton scandals. He raises
questions about fingerprints of folks like Clinton Lawyer Jamie Gorelick, who
erected a so-called “Chinese Wall” between security agencies that would come
back to bite us on the ass in the events leading up to 9-11. Cashill properly
raise the question how Gorelick later ended up on the 9-11 Commission panel
rather than being questioned by it and how with NO level of experience she was
handed the plum job (pay off) by Clinton, of running Fannie Mae with a multi-million dollar salary.

Cashill also raises questions about Clinton National
Security Advisor, Sandy Berger, who was intimately involved in the TWA 800
debacle and who later got in legal hot water for “accidently’ stuffing
classified documents into his pants at the national archives, while prepping
for the 9-11 Commission. Was he attempting to remove documents that referenced
plots to use airplanes to commit terrorist attacks? We will never know, since
Berger illegally destroyed classified materials.

While Cashill draws no conclusions in the course of TWA 800, he simply stings together
mountains of evidence that paint a wildly different picture of what happened on
July 17, 1996 than what the government would have you believe.